Refik Anadol, Living Paintings (Installation View), via Art Observed
Opening during the run of Frieze Los Angeles this past week, Turkish artist Refik Anadol has installed a body of new works at Jeffrey Deitch’s expansive 925 N. Orange Drive exhibition space, continuing his exploration and elaboration of datasets, visualization models and densely layered digital compositions. Titled Living Paintings, the exhibition will showcase the complete series of Anadol’s artworks that are based on California-related datasets, and explore his fascination with the environments – physical, public, virtual, and multidimensional – that play an instrumental role in shaping his artistic vision.
Refik Anadol, Living Paintings (Installation View), via Art Observed
Merging collective memories of urban life and nature with groundbreaking machine learning and visualization technologies, Living Paintings invites a poetic and futuristic contemplation of purposeful human-machine collaborations. The artist delves heavily here into artificial intelligence models and his own techniques to create hybridized systems and models that walk the line between algorithmic generation and aesthetic interrogations by his own hand. The resulting AI Data Paintings and Sculptures extend a uniquely dynamic relationship between art, technology, and architecture into the future, activating multiple senses and evoking simultaneous states of being and perception. The primary thread that runs throughout his groundbreaking visualizations of the unseen world is the utilization of data as pigment to create enriched immersive environments, swirling and moving across the screen in a manner that underscores human and natural forms as as graphical flows. Environmental data such as wind speed, temperature, and air pressure collected from sensors around Los Angeles, images of national parks in California (the largest dataset of this kind ever to be used for an artwork), and publicly available wind forecast data collected from the Pacific Ocean all appear here in concert with machine learning algorithms and visualization models to create new fluid imagery.
Refik Anadol, Living Paintings (Installation View), via Art Observed
Refik Anadol, Living Paintings (Installation View), via Art Observed
The exhibition also features Anadol’s Infinity Room project, that has traveled around the world and been experienced by more than 2 million people. This iteration of Infinity Room pays homage to Los Angeles by translating its data into another immensem immersive installation; a media wall that features real-time Pacific Ocean data, Pacific Dreams, emphasizes the human interrelation with nature, while exploring notions of structure and form in relation to our own perceptual inputs. Here, Anadol turns the organic into the digital, while allowing our own senses to bring these new images back into the realm of human understanding and meaning.
The show closes April 29th.
– D. Creahan
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Refik Anadol at Jeffrey Deitch [Exhibition Site]
